Motivational Quotes

Work

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

- Mcgoorty, Danny

Best Quotes about Work

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

29.

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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There is no substitute for hard work.